| 单词 | laughing jackass |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslaughing jackass laughing jackass n. (a) chiefly Australian = laughing kookaburra n. (cf. jackass n.1 4); †(b) New Zealand = laughing owl n. (b) (obsolete); (c) New Zealand any of various petrels and shearwaters. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Alcedinidae > dacelo novaeguineae (kookaburra) kingfisher1440 laughing jackass1798 settler's clock1827 jackass1844 goburra1860 Jack1863 kookaburra1890 Jacky1898 Jacko1907 kooka1933 1798 D. Collins Acct. Eng. Colony New S. Wales I. 615 Go-gan-ne-gine, Bird named by us the Laughing Jack-Ass. 1822 J. Latham Gen. Hist. Birds IV. 10 Great Brown Kingsfisher..the note compared to human laughter, which should give the idea of cheerfulness; hence called the Laughing Bird, or Laughing Jack-Ass. 1860 S. Butler Forest Creek MS (1960) 45 The laughing jackass [of New Zealand] is unlike the well behaved boy inasmuch as the latter is seen and not heard—the former is heard but has never yet been seen. 1871 F. W. Hutton Catal. Birds N.Z. 45 Puffinus gavius... Rain-bird or Wet-bird. Shearwater, Laughing Jackass(?). Hakoakoa. 1940 E. C. Studholme Te Waimate (1954) 250 On foggy evenings the laughing petrels, or laughing jackasses, as some people called them, would come rushing in from the sea, making for their nesting places in the hills, and start their hair-raising clatter close overhead. 2002 Esquire Sept. 136/3 Whatever pastoral bliss this description might suggest is pierced by..the mad whooping of kookaburras (laughing jackasses, locals call them, and accurately). < as lemmas |
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